Ground temperature = 60 degrees. It's time to plant.
Chris and Mama planting corn
They got fifty planted. Two hundred will go in, staggered over six weeks to hopefully give produce from mid-summer into fall.
Corn is still tricky for me so who knows? If I get one meal out of it, I’m happy 😛
while planting potatoes we hit a big root.
The root won. We lost.
Hey, we tried 🙂
Chris's first time with a weedwacker.
He liked it so much he asked if he could do it again on our second day.
I’m proud of him. He was a big help.
a Pepper Plant grown from the shop
Yup! There’s a hydroponics area in the shop and it’s filled to the brim. Seeing this beautiful pepper plant makes me feel like I’ve accomplished something from all the trial and error over the years.
Do you see the wild strawberry in the pic?
“Wild” as in “The chickens planted them here”.
I’ve got a soft spot for strawberry so I painted lines where Chris was NOT ALLOWED TO WEEDWACK, then painstakingly weeded these guys by hand and moved them over to the North Side Strawberry Patch where they can live “happily ever after”.
I lost so much time doing this, but definitely for a good cause.
end of day:
Babes are all tucked in, asleep as I write this.
22 bell pepper,
20 Exotic peppers (Carolina Reaper, Candy Cane Bell),
30? Potato
30? Onion
50-100 carrot
50 Corn
And so much more left to do.
Progress is good. Progress is on time.
Look at my man go. Hard to tell it’s only his second time with the unit.
See how he’s got the head angled to really get in close? I taught him that.
Proud Dad right here.